#restrain

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#best #economy #experience #fiscal #government

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#passivity #path #peace #quotes #restraint

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frequently #hurtful #injury #more #provokes

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738) ↗

— Voltaire

#dullness #restraint #writing #secret

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #back #commit #doing #drink

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#displays #expression #first #individuality #natural

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so. ↗

— David Axelrod

#allowed #believe #companies #insurance #insurance companies

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#capable #either #fear #feeling #heterosexuality

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow